no, I'm saying that as far as apache is concerned, the local drive is not the entire c drive, it only sees what its given access to, which really should not be anything beyond the web root. There are other ways around it, like putting the file in some subfolder of the webroot if it's for web use, or have a task scheduler or cron job move it to where it can be read at set intervals. There are a lot of ways to accomplish what you want, what you should not do, however tempting it may seem, is give your apache access to your entire drive. Then you're just one good exploit away from SOL.